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Report: Autopsy Reveals Sixth NFL Player Suffered From Head Trauma-Related Brain Damage

By Peter Keating

Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Tom McHale, who played guard for three NFL teams from 1987 to 1995, was suffering from chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), brain damage caused by repeated head trauma, when he died from a multiple-drug overdose last year, researchers at Boston University School of Medicine announced today. Over the past two years, researchers have examined the brains of seven former NFL players, including McHale, all of whom died by the age of 50. Six turned out to have had CTE, which is characterized by ...

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